Programme Area

Water & Sanitation

Water points that still work in ten years’ time.

Overview

Safe water points, hygiene promotion and community management structures that keep systems running for years.

A borehole is only useful for as long as somebody can repair it. Across rural Tanzania, broken water points are rarely a hardware problem — they are a management problem.

Every CEPI water investment comes with a trained, financed community management committee, a maintenance plan and a spare-parts route, so systems keep running long after handover.

The Challenge

Unsafe water and poor sanitation drive disease, lost school days and unequal burdens on women and girls.

Our Response

We install safe water points and hygiene systems, then hand over management to trained community structures.

Who benefits

Rural households, schools and health facilities.

Where we work

Kigoma · Mbeya · Tabora

How We Work

Our approach, step by step

1

Assess

Community-led siting and technical assessment of the most viable water source.

2

Build

Construction or rehabilitation of water points to national standards.

3

Promote hygiene

Household and school hygiene and sanitation behaviour change.

4

Hand over

Water committees trained in tariffs, maintenance and accountability.

Key Activities

What this looks like in practice

Expected outcomes

Sustained access to safe water and reduced waterborne illness.

People with improved water access
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Community initiatives supported
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Regions with active WASH work
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Voices From The Field

“The pump has not failed once, because our
committee knows how to fix it and we have the
funds to do it.”

Water committee treasurer, Mbeya

Who We Work With

Delivered in partnership

District water engineers

Schools and health facilities

WASH sector partners

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